1 Introduction

The analysis is divided into three scales:

This document describes results for Pottery groups.

The study area is broadly defined as Easter part of Bohemia (abbreviated B) and Morava river catchment (M). It spans across the area of the Czech Republic and bordering regions of Austria and Slovakia.

1.1 Data

Data is published in the Journal of Open Archaeology Data:

Pajdla, P. and Trampota, F., 2021. Neolithic Settlements in Central Europe: Data from the Project ‘Lifestyle as an Unintentional Identity in the Neolithic’. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 9, p.13. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.88

Table 1.1: Number of settlements across time periods.
Period n
4.9 – 4.8 k 115
4.8 – 4.6 k 448
4.6 – 4.4 k 932
4.4 – 4.2 k 968
4.2 – 4.0 k 239
4.0 – 3.8 k 85
3.8 – 3.6 k 142
3.6 – 3.4 k 145
3.4 – 3.3 k 145
Settlements across time periods.

Figure 1.1: Settlements across time periods.

2 Analysis

2.1 Settlement density

Settlement density is estimated using KDE. Kernel size of 4 km is used. This value is completely arbitrary but is selected because settlement clusters are nicely highlighted at this scale.

Kernel density estimation for different periods.

Figure 2.1: Kernel density estimation for different periods.

2.2 Terrain surrounding the settlements

2.2.1 Altitude

2.2.2 Slope

2.2.3 TPI

Terrain / Topographic position index

2.2.4 Density of water courses

3 Arrangement along natural lines

4 Distance to raw material sources

5 Continuity

6 Synthesis

6.1 Principal components analysis

reg column r
B tpi 0.3693057
B line_terrain 0.2831362
B line_water 0.2093457
B hydro 0.2092288
B slope 0.1987122
B rm_dist_chipped 0.1978155
B altitude 0.1878657
B settlements_kde 0.1808113
B rm_dist_polished NaN
M tpi 0.2658537
M hydro 0.2509251
M line_water 0.2445276
M settlements_kde 0.2262059
M slope 0.2247802
M line_terrain 0.2168798
M altitude 0.1960710
M rm_dist_polished 0.1785192
M rm_dist_chipped 0.1711350

6.2 Groups in the data

7 References

7.0.1 Colophon

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